The winners of 2012 edition of the Bałaban Contest

The decision of the fifth edition of the Majer Bałaban Competition for the best PhD and MA thesis on Jewish themes, organized by the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute. The level, wide thematic range and number of submitted works prove, to the satisfaction of the organizers of the competition, that the theme of the history and culture of Jews has become a subject of interest at many Polish universities. All submissions will be filed in the Archives of the Jewish Historical Institute.

The Jury of the Fifth Edition of the Majer Bałaban Competition at the meeting on the 16thOctober 2012, decided as follows:

In the category of the PhD thesis, the first prize was awarded to:

Bartłomiej Krupa – To Relate the Holocaust. Polish prose and historiography of the Holocaust (1987–2003)

The second prize went to:

Paweł Wolski – Tadeusz Borowski – Primo Levi. A parallel.

The third prize went to:

Krzysztof Kwiatkowski – The New Synagogue in Poznań. A virtual reconstruction.

In the category of the PhD thesis, one distinction was awarded to the work of: